ni
The verdict
“ni” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,234) as a pronoun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,234
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 360
- “N” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - nós, pronome da segunda pessoa do plural
Corpus desk
Index PT-ni · ni · Portuguese
ni · rank #8,234 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,234
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 360
- PHOTO-FINISH nelas
Nearest frequency peer: nelas (-3 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “ni”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- mec
mec
91,776 corpus weight
- mineral
mineral
91,775 corpus weight
- monarquia
monarquia
91,772 corpus weight
- nelas
nelas
91,770 corpus weight
- ni
ni
91,767 corpus weight
- plenário
plenário
91,758 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “ni” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ni |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Pronoun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #8,234 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “ni”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ni is neighbouring look-alikes ("no", "nu", …), not just typos; it is apronoun. Frequency #8,234 among 360 “N” headwords. Gloss: "nós, pronome da segunda pessoa do plural".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ni, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "no", "nu", "nn", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Portuguese form is ni, spelled N-I.
Definition
- 1nós, pronome da segunda pessoa do plural
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ni iris al la naĝejo.
Oni donis donacojn al ni.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.